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    Big Smile

    Can you imagine!

    Amazingly, goalies in the National Hockey League played without masks until the year 1959.

    :drop:

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    Big Smile

    What a seat.

    Before 1859, baseball umpires were seated in padded chairs behind home plate.

    I would hate to get hit with a foul tipped ball bacvk there. Ouch

    :bbg: :D

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    Big Smile

    Talk about a bat!

    Black Betsy was the name of Shoeless Joe Jackson's 44 ounce baseball bat.

    That had to be the size of a tree trunk!

    :bbg: :D

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    A rhino's horn is a modified clump of hair.
    Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.

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    Sound travels faster in the water than in the air.
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    The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

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    Bad news for the Vikings

    No NFL team, which plays its home games in a domed stadium, has ever won a Superbowl.

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    There are 38 peaks in South America that are higher than North America's highest point, Mt. McKinley.
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    A cat uses it's whiskers to test the width of an opening it intends to crawl through.
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    The original coat of arms was a piece of fabric that knights wore over their armor.
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    The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
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    Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
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    Pearls melt in vinegar...........
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    Benjamin Franklin originally wanted the national symbol of the United States to be the turkey,not the bald eagle.
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    Try This.......

    This is one of the strangest things I have ever encountered.
    " Left brain, right brain "

    While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor
    and make clockwise circles.

    Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your
    right hand.

    Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do
    about it. :cheers:
    Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.

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    For you golfers

    When Mary, later Queen of Scots, went to France as a young girl, for
    education & survival, Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the
    Scot game "golf." So he had the first golf course outside of Scotland
    built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned and
    guarded while she played, Louis hired cadets from a militaryschool to
    accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to
    Scotland,she took the practice with her. In French the word cadet is
    pronounced ca-day' & the Scots changed it into "caddie."

    Robert

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    It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the brides father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based,this period was called the honey month. We know it today as the honeymoon.
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    You can fit the state of Rhode Island inside of the King Ranch, Texas..

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    Question Question......................

    Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
    Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.

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    "All Mine" ? ;)
    Lots of boats around my home area....and I have seen some interesting names!
    Tell us, what IS the most popular name?
    "The Good Lord gave us mountains so we could learn how to climb". ~ Lonestar

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    JennyP said:
    "All Mine" ? ;)
    Lots of boats around my home area....and I have seen some interesting names!
    Tell us, what IS the most popular name?
    Obsession :D
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    Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy.
    Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.

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    The ashes of the average cremated person weigh nine pounds.
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    John Larroquette of "Night Court" was the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
    Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.

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    Dr. Seuss and Kurt Vonnegut went to college together. They were in the same fraternity, where Seuss decorated the fraternity house walls with drawings of his characters.
    Intelligence has its limits, but stupidity knows no bounds.

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